Ex-domestic help, driver burgle Noida businessman’s house, arrested from Bihar
The Noida police said that one of the suspects disguised himself as a woman and stole jewellery and cash from the house while the driver was away with the businessman and his family.
The police said that the CCTV cameras at the businessman's house helped them identify the accused. (File Photo) The Noida police arrested two men on Wednesday for allegedly stealing cash and jewellery worth Rs 1 crore from a businessman’s house. They have recovered jewellery, Rs 5 lakh in cash, and other items including knives from the accused who had been absconding for some time.
The accused identified as Samarjit, 19, a resident of Bihar’s Muzaffarpur district, and Sandeep Singh, 29, of Uttar Pradesh’s Gorakhpur, broke into the house of Noida-based businessman Saurabh Jain a few weeks ago, said a police officer at Sector 39 station that investigated the case. Samarjit had worked as the domestic help of Jain for about two-and-a-half years, while Singh was Jain’s driver, the police said.
“Jain lives with his family in Sector-39 police station area and had recently reported a major theft at their house. While the family was away, one of the two men entered the house disguised as a woman and made away with the valuables from their house,” said Sumit Shukla, Additional Commissioner of Police, Noida.
“Two months ago, Jain fired Samarjit. By then, he had become aware of all the keys and belongings in the house. He also knew about the lockers where the family’s cash and jewellery were kept. While leaving the house, he stole the master key of the house, knowing it would open all the doors,” said the additional police commissioner.
The police said that the other accused, Sandeep Singh, who studied till class nine, maintained good contact with Samarjit even after he was fired. “Singh would share with him the location of the businessman’s family every day. On the day of the theft, he informed Samarjit that the family would be going out for dinner. While Singh had taken out Jain’s family, Samarjit dressed up in a woman’s attire and his face covered with a mask reached the businessman’s house and opened the door with the master key. He took the cash and jewellery kept in the cupboard, locked the house, and escaped by jumping over the wall,” said an officer.
The police said that the CCTV cameras at the businessman’s house helped them identify the accused. Both suspects had fled to Bihar from when they were nabbed, the police said.
They had been in contact with goldsmiths to sell the ornaments, said the police, adding they are verifying the criminal antecedents of the suspects.
The suspects have been booked under sections 305A (theft in a dwelling house, or means of transportation or place of worship), 331(4) (punishment for house-trespass and house-breaking) and 317(2) (Stolen property) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Samhita and relevant sections of the Arms Act.
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